I’m literally crawling through to the end of the work week. It’s been about viewing one blinding screen after another or driving all across town in the blazing heat going from one building to another for meetings. Basically what I’m complaining about here is that I’ve had a really dry/bland week. All I’ve experienced is just walls and screen so it was really refreshing to come across the Green World Project because if there was anything I noticed lately it’s how the world is becoming less and less ‘fresh looking’.
I mean remember that there used to be more trees along the side of the road leading home than there are now and it’s really sad because I loved those trees; they weren’t just a pretty sight, they were trees with a practical purpose -they gave shade from the hot sun and they housed cute little critters.
But as much as I distress at the lack of trees in my neighbourhood, the truth is what I experience is just a miniscule laughable version of deforestation/land degradation because elsewhere in the world the lack of trees doesn’t just result in a less shadier drive – it results in the dried up barren lands.
And this is where the Green World Campaign steps in. Their ambition is to simply “Turn degraded lands green again. Raise the living standards of the rural poor. Combat climate change. Create holistic ways to work for the health of our shared biosphere and the harmony of our global village”. Sounds fantastic right? Not to mention like a whole load of work that will take forever t materialise? Not exactly…you’d be surprised to learn that the project’s key success factor is the successful replanting of trees!
As long as the trees grow and refresh the earth, the project will succeed in achieving its noble ambition. So for those of you out there who ever laughed at the sight or mere thought of tree planting campaigns ever amounting to any good, think again.
In fact ask yourselves the same question the Green World Campaign Team asked themselves when they first saw this all feasible, “What can we accomplish as global citizens if we really put our minds to it?” Their answer: “Just about anything”.
Now obviously there’s more to the project than just making new plant life grow (I said Key Success Factor not Sole Success Factor). To find out more do visit their website and learn what it is specifically that they do and how you can be a part of the Green World vision.
